@article{jbp:/content/journals/10.1075/pc.4.1.07bar, author = "Barnden, John A.", title = "Unconscious gaps in Jackendoff 's "How language helps us think"?", journal= "Pragmatics & Cognition", year = "1996", volume = "4", number = "1", pages = "65-80", doi = "https://doi.org/10.1075/pc.4.1.07bar", url = "https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/10.1075/pc.4.1.07bar", publisher = "John Benjamins", issn = "0929-0907", type = "Journal Article", abstract = "Jackendoff comes to some appealing overall conclusions, but several of his assumptions and arguments are questionable. The present commentary points out the following problems: oversimplifications in the translation-based argument for the independence of language and thought; a lack of consideration of the possibility of unconscious use of internalized natural languages; insufficient consideration of possible characteristics of languages of thought (as opposed to internalized natural languages); neglect of the possibility of thinking in example-oriented and metaphorical ways; unfair bias in contrasting visual to linguistic imagery; neglect of other types of imagery; and neglect of the possibility of unconscious attentional processes.", }